It's Father's Day in Portugal today!!!
Next monday is transfer monday, and Elder White is really sure that he is leaving, this is his 3rd transfer in Setubal, but it should end on a good note, we have a baptism and a confirmation on Friday of a guy named Sandro. He was marked last transfer and is the one that didn't want anything to do with the missionaries when I arrived, and 6 weeks later, he is getting baptized. He is going to get confirmed on Friday because he is going to Viana do Castelo on sunday with his sister, and they will go to church there.
One of the recent converts from last transfer was sustained this sunday to get the Aaronic Priesthood, and several people opposed it. That was something a little different. His mom even opposed it (but she is an eternal investigator, so she didn't have any say). but apparently he hasn't been acting very good, so there was an interesting confusion. The end result is that on sunday he was given the Aaronic Priesthood. It was interesting because the bishop didn't even meet with the members who opposed it.
Well our gypsie family had the day and time wrong for the church, but José, the dad, said that he was talking to Heavenly Father and Heavenly Father said that we needed to open a gypsie congregation during the week in our chappel. as you can imagine, the bishop said no, and José was content with just going to church on sunday. Unfortunately, he thought it started at 10 o'clock at night instead of in the morning, so he will come next week. José said that while he was talking with god that god told him this church was one of the true churches. I don't think he understood the first lesson, but we will go by and teach them this upcoming week.
Sandro's birthday was this last weekend, and they had some really strange drink there that was "alcohol free", but after the fact, elder White and I decided it wasn't. The members and nonmembers were drinking it (it was some sort of strawberry juice), and everyone told us it was fine, including the members. We trusted the members and it tasted really bad, so we kept drinking it, until I gave it to the members, and told them that it tasted really bad, and I didn't like it. That night I had headache, and decided that we drank alcohol on accident. President Torgan said to ask for forgiveness even though we are unsure if it had alcohol or not. It wasn't listed as an ingredient (I looked very carefully).
We had a lot of fun with sandro this week. Last monday we taught him about the law of chastity and well, guess what?, he had plenty of really strange questions for us. One of our faithful members that smokes told him very interesting things about the law of chastity and about the way that everything is done, I won't go into details, but I thought it was quite funny.
We found an American guy that has dual citizenship in the USA and Brasil. He is in Portugal for 3 weeks on R and R. he is serving in Afganistan right now. He was telling us some really interesting stories. He was in a Helicopter that was hit and 3 of the 7 people inside were killed and the 3 killed weren't given Purple hearts, and he was sort of sad about that. He also said that the US is basically done in Iraq. we only have 2 active bases in Iraq and at the height of the war we had 20. We were told that Afganistan had 20 active bases and still has 20 active bases. He gave us veteran coins from Afganistan and we are going to go and give him an English book of mormon tonight, and he was at church.
Elder Hope
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